OpenAI Expands in India with New Offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru

OpenAI will be expanding its operations to India later this year with the opening of offices in Bengaluru and Mumbai. Notably, the ChatGPT creator established an office in New Delhi last year, so it already has a presence there. India is currently at the forefront of AI adoption, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who responded to the news in a blog post.

Thanks to its abundance of talented native tech workers, high expectations for AI's potential benefits, and robust government backing, this country is at the forefront of this field, Altman added. Therefore, India has a great opportunity to influence its own future and the widespread adoption of democratic AI. The brand is collaborating on the necessary infrastructure, talents, and local alliances to develop AI in India through OpenAI for India.

Tata also Joining Open AI

As part of their joint global AI infrastructure effort, Stargate, OpenAI will be the first customer of the data centre business in India. The collaboration will be starting with 100 megawatts of capacity, according to Tata Consultancy Services and OpenAI.

Major investors have sponsored Stargate, a $500 billion, multi-year plan to construct artificial intelligence data centres for training and inference. This is a huge win for TCS, which last year revealed intentions to spend up to $7 billion on a 1-gigawatt data centre unit in India, marking a strategic change.

India’s AI Infra Attracting Global Players

Spending on expensive AI infrastructure has increased in India. Not only are local businesses like Reliance and Adani Group increasing their investments, but so are global powerhouses like Amazon, Google, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft. In a different collaboration, Tata Group, the parent company of TCS, also intends to use ChatGPT Enterprise.

In the coming years, this rollout will spread throughout the entire organisation, beginning with hundreds of thousands of workers. ChatGPT's parent business is OpenAI. According to OpenAI, the number of weekly ChatGPT users in India has surpassed 100 million.